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...approximation of the right position before stepping on a scale. Then they take the U.S. population in units of "square degrees," the areas enclosed by consecutive parallels and meridians. In most square degrees they assume that the population center is at the geographical center. (For square degrees that contain large towns they make special calculations.) Then they multiply the population of each square degree by the distance north or south of the tentative center. If those to the south of it "outweigh" those to the north, they move the center until they get a balance; same operation for east & west...
Second Best. On its face the official statement scarcely bore out St. Laurent's enthusiasm. Still missing was the formal presidential agreement which Canada needs before she can alter the levels of U.S.-Canadian boundary waters. But the communique did contain one meaningful commitment: "The President would support the Canadian action as second best if an early commencement of the joint development does not prove possible...
...white-haired man could barely contain himself yesterday afternoon. "Boy oh boy, those follows showed real sisu, boy oh boy." And that was about all he could...
...these high "standing waves" that are under suspicion. They often contain winds that blow either up or down at 4,000 ft. per min. A down-draught of such violence can smack down a high-flying airplane against a chunk of rock before the pilot realizes he is anywhere near a mountain. Sometimes his altimeter (which measures air pressure, not actual height) gives him no warning; the turbulent waves in the lee of high mountains often have spots of rarefied air that make the instrument read much higher than it should...
...Jewish family, and died (in 1943) a passionate Christian mystic (TIME, Jan. 15). She was deeply influenced by Roman Catholicism, but could never bring herself to become a Catholic, or even to be baptized. She wrote hardly a line for publication, but her diaries, letters and a few essays contain a vivid and challenging sense of the presence...